Biden won the South Carolina primary by 94 points. Trump could never.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Though some disaffected Democrats will try to dismiss President Biden’s runaway victory in Saturday’s primary here, they’re just plain wrong. Sure, there was low turnout, but Black voters were overrepresented among those who showed up, and they were determined to do so against any challenges.
Democrats in South Carolina, having helped catapult Biden to the nomination and the presidency in 2020, did their best to repeat the trick. He won a near-unanimous 96 percent of the vote in what was, after all, a contested primary. Challengers Marianne Williamson and Dean Phillips finished in rounding-error territory, with roughly 2 percent each. Some national polls have shown anemic enthusiasm for Biden’s reelection within his own party, but voters here apparently did not get the memo.
Black voters cast roughly three-fourths of the early vote, according to the state Democratic Party, though they make up only about half of the state’s Democratic electorate. Among the African Americans who waited until primary day to cast a ballot were the Rev. Mickey Joyner and his wife, Teresa. “The president deserves two terms to finish his work,” Mickey Joyner said, standing outside of the Earlewood Park Community Center just north of downtown. “He’s done a good job.”
Teresa Joyner said that “we don’t even understand the reason for having a primary,” given Biden’s incumbency. She and her husband said they were determined, above all, to keep Donald Trump from regaining power. Trump “has no respect for the law,” in Mickey Joyner’s words, and Teresa Joyner said the former president “reminds me of a 5- or 6-year-old.”
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